I am. Some companies have a lot of tooling made for and internal frameworks built in Java. It would be a lot of effort to rewrite all of that in another langua

I am. Some companies have a lot of tooling made for and internal frameworks built in Java. It would be a lot of effort to rewrite all of that in another language, and also a lot of effort to just forego all these goodies and implement them myself. In the end I'm getting paid to ship a product. Sure, Java is not "cool", and new devs fresh out of university might prefer something else, but let's not forget that modern Java is nothing like the Java that a lot of people used a while back. Most of the criticism we heard ("boilerplate") is not really valid anymore.